quadrennial

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  1. adjective Happening once in four years.
  2. adjective Lasting for four years.

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  • Other Republican insiders said they'll stick around for the quadrennial rite of government, the Washington publication said. —  Latest News - UPI.com
  • Although the UEFA football championship, the Beijing Olympics and the US Presidential Election had the usual positive maxi-quadrennial effect on client spending, worldwide advertising and marketing expenditures only rose about 2-3\% in the year. —  MarketWatch.com - Top Stories
  • Astute observers of U.S. presidential elections know that at 12: 01 am on the first Tuesday of November in every leap year, a small group gathers at the Balsams Resort Hotel in Dixville Notch, NH, a few miles south of the Canadian border, for their quadrennial 15 minutes of fame. —  Software Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha
  • The public relations industry, which runs elections here-quadrennial extravaganzas essentially-makes sure to keep issues in the margins and focus on personalities, character, and so on and so forth. —  HALFWAY TO CONCORD
  • "That is why there is a freshness to this even that transcends the quadrennial civic ritual." —  Freep.com - RSS
 

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/kwɑdˈrɛniəl/
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